《鲁滨逊漂流记》是英国著名作家笛福的代表作,小说以一个苏格兰水手在荒岛上的真实经历为原型。主人公鲁滨逊从小向往航海,成年后多次出海经商。在一次航海途中,船只遭遇飓风袭击,鲁滨逊流落到南美洲的某个荒岛。在岛上,他造房子,种粮食、水果,驯养野生动物,烧制陶器,制造工具,给自己建设了一个家园,彻底改变了无衣无食的苦难命运。他还从野人的屠刀下救出一个人,作为自己的仆人。二十八年后,他帮助一艘在小岛靠岸的大船平息叛乱,并搭乘这艘船重返故乡。他在巴西的种植园获得巨大盈利,他成了富翁。本书是英文进口原版读本。
From its first publication in 1719,Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions.It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation,and been the subject of plays,opera,cartoons,and computer games.The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe.
Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge,Rousseau and Wordsworth,this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory.However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure.